You Don't Say

John McIntyre, whom James Wolcott called "the Dave Brubeck of the art and craft of copy editing," writes on language, editing, journalism, and random topics. Identifying his errors relieves him of the burden of omniscience. Write to jemcintyre@gmail.com, befriend at Facebook, or follow at Twitter: @johnemcintyre. His original "You Don't Say" blog at The Baltimore Sun ran from 2005 to 2021, and posts on it can sometimes be found at baltimoresun.com through Google searches.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

I wasn't at Woodstock

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Few things in journalism bear as strong a sense of inevitability as the anniversary story. Point a writer to an event, ten, twenty, twenty-f...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Evaluating copy editors

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If you happen to oversee copy editors, one of our nation’s fast-dwindling resources, you might be interested in some suggestions on how to e...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

You too can be Montesquieu

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Waiting at the Evergreen coffee house on Cold Spring Lane for a friend to arrive, I picked up from the discarded books available on the shel...

Those whom the union protects

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Last week, when I argued that the mores of newspapers protect stars and incompetents, a number of responses in public comments and private m...
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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Half of Samuel Johnson

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Every few decades we are invited to rediscover Samuel Johnson — Joseph Wood Krutch’s biography in 1944, Walter Jackson Bate’s in 1977, and n...
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Episcopal talk

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That you’re not in church this Sunday morning does not mean that you escape ecclesiastical subjects. Religion, like science or law, is treac...
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Thursday, August 6, 2009

The crisis

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URGENT, URGENT: TWITTER OUT. FACEBOOK ERRATIC. GOOGLE SLOW. CAN’T HOLD OUT MUCH LONGER. No word on what is happening — Internet Explorer “c...
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To your health

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Even though my health insurance will expire in another couple of months, I have a steely resolve to no longer read, watch, or listen to* any...
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And now the bosses

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After alluding to the taxonomies of copy editors and writers in yesterday’s post on stars and incompetents , I realized that I had neglecte...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The patron and the protege

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Three summers ago I published on the original You Don’t Say blog jocular taxonomies of copy editors and writers . This summer, after discuss...
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